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HistoryOct 27, 2020 - 12:00 a.m.

Tomcat vulnerability

2020-10-2700:00:00
ubuntu.com
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tomcat
ubuntu 16.04 esm
vulnerability
remote attacker
root privileges
log files
init script

CVSS2

7.2

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

COMPLETE

Integrity Impact

COMPLETE

Availability Impact

COMPLETE

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS3

7.8

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

AI Score

7.9

Confidence

High

EPSS

0

Percentile

9.8%

Releases

  • Ubuntu 16.04 ESM

Packages

  • tomcat6 - Servlet and JSP engine

Details

Dawid Golunski discovered that the Tomcat init script incorrectly handled
creating log files. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to
obtain root privileges.

OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
Ubuntu16.04noarchlibservlet2.5-java< 6.0.45+dfsg-1ubuntu0.2UNKNOWN
Ubuntu16.04noarchlibservlet2.5-java-doc< 6.0.45+dfsg-1ubuntu0.2UNKNOWN

CVSS2

7.2

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

COMPLETE

Integrity Impact

COMPLETE

Availability Impact

COMPLETE

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS3

7.8

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

AI Score

7.9

Confidence

High

EPSS

0

Percentile

9.8%